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Quatuor Mosaïques:
Schubert’s “Rosamunde”

Schubert wrote,“When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow.  And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.” Immerse yourself in Schubert’s “Rosamunde” – the quintessential romantic string quartet – when Quatuor Mosaïques returns to Vancouver.  You’ll hear Schubert's music as he heard it, and you’ll revel in music by Haydn and Mendelssohn.

Originally members of the famed Concentus Musicus Wien, the musicians of Quatuor Mosaïques are recognized as the leading exponents of the central European classical quartet repertoire. Their extraordinary musicianship and use of historical instruments has created a unique sound, in which the ultimate objective of each performance is to reveal the inner spiritual wealth of the music.

Quatuor Mosaïques:

Erich Höbarth violin
Andrea Bischof violin
Anita Mitterer viola
Christophe Coin cello

Concert Details and Ticket Information

			Tuesday evening, 17 April 2012
			Concert at 8:00 pm (no pre-concert introduction)
			PLEASE NOTE VENUE: Vancouver Playhouse
			601 Hamilton at Dunsmuir, downtown Vancouver

Tickets for this performance at the Vancouver Playhouse and in collaboration with the Friends of Chamber Music, at $40 (students $15), can be ordered on-line via our secure connection. These ticket prices include 12% HST.

They can also be ordered by phone (604 732-1610) from the office of Early Music Vancouver. Tickets are also available at Sikora’s Classical Records.

Rush Seats for Students with valid ID on sale for $10, at the door only, from 7:00 pm on the afternoon of the concert.

These concerts are included in our “Bring a Youth for Free” programme.

Programme

Franz Josef Haydn (1732-1809):
“Sunrise” Quartet in B flat major Opus 76, No.4, Hob. III:78
Allegro con spirito
Adagio
Menuetto: Allegro
Allegro ma non troppo

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847):
Quartet in A minor Opus 13
Adagio – Allegro vivace
Adagio non lento
Intermezzo: Allegretto con moto – Allegro di molto
Presto – Adagio non lento

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Franz Schubert (1797-1828):
“Rosamunde” Quartet in A minor Opus 29, D804
Allegro ma non troppo
Andante
Menuetto – Allegretto – Trio
Allegro moderato

– programme subject to changes

Programme Notes

Programme notes will be posted here soon.

The Artists

Quatuor Mosaïques

Quatuor Mosaïques is the most prominent period-instrument quartet performing today. The ensemble has garnered praise for their decision to use gut-stringed instruments which, in combination with their celebrated musicianship, has cultivated a unique sound for the group. The Quartet has toured extensively, won numerous prizes and established a substantial discography. Formed in 1985, the group is comprised of Austrians Erich Höbarth (violin), Andrea Bischof, (violin), Anita Mitterer (viola), and the French cellist Christophe Coin. The Quartet has performed in Europe, the United States, Australia and Japan and regularly performs in Vienna, London’s Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and Berlin’s Philharmonic Hall. The Quartet often appears at prestigious European festivals such as Edinburgh, Salzburg, Luzern, Bremen, Bath, Styriarte Graz, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and Oslo, among others. Quatuor Mosaïques has performed with many international artists including pianists András Schiff and Patrick Cohen, clarinetists Wolfgang Meyer and Sabine Meyer and cellists Miklós Perényi and Raphael Pidoux. In 2006 Quatuor Mosaïques was invited to Spain to perform for King Juan Carlos I, using the Monarch’s personal collection of Stradivari instruments.

During the 2008-2009 season, the group embarked on their first tour of North America in over ten years, visiting Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Vancouver, Berkeley, and San Diego, all to rave reviews. Of their Zankel Hall performance at New York’s Carnegie Hall, The New York Times noted that the group performed with “elegant, detailed phrasing and carefully wrought playing.”

Quatuor Mosaïques has an extraordinarily extensive discography which includes works of Haydn, Mozart, Arriaga, Boccherini, Jadin, Beethoven, Schubert and Mendelssohn as well as works by modern composers. Of the group’s latest release, Schubert’s Der Tod und das Mädchen, the London Times writes, “their performance of Death and the Maiden is music-making of a high order, felt and carried out by players animated as though by a single mind and impulse, yet each of them seeming to respond afresh at every moment.” Recordings of the “Wiener Klassik” repertoire (Haydn string quartets: Op.20, 33, 77 and the quartets of Mozart dedicated to Haydn) have been awarded numerous prizes such as the “Diapason d’or” the “Choc du Monde de la Musique” and a Gramophone Award.

These four musicians met while performing with Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s Concentus Musicus in the 1980s, and decided to perform on original instruments as a classical “caper quartet”. Although the Quartet performs on period instruments it embraces the European quartet tradition, constantly allowing for the evolution of their repertoire as it strives to reveal the music’s psychological underpinnings.

Erich Höbarth was born in Vienna, where he studied with Grete Biedermann and Franz Samohyl, and later at the Musikhochschules of Vienna and Salzburg. He was a member of the Végh Quartet from 1978 to 1980, and subsequently held the position of Konzertmeister of the Wiener Symphoniker for seven years. Since 1981 Mr. Höbarth has been Konzertmeister and soloist for the Concentus Musicus Wien; he also teaches at the Musikhochschule in Vienna.

Andrea Bischof was born in Vorarlberg and studied in Vienna with Grete Biedermann and Thomas Christian. Since 1980 she has held the position of Konzertmeisterin and soloist of the Austrian Bach Soloists, and is also a permanent member of the Concentus Musicus and Professor of Chamber Music at the Musikhochschule in Vienna.

Anita Mitterer was born in Lienz in the Ostirrol, and studied with Jürgen Geise in Salzburg, Antonin Moravec in Prague and Thomas Christian in Vienna. She is a member of the Concentus Musicus, Director of the Baroque Ensemble of Salzburg and teaches violin and viola at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

Christophe Coin was born in Caen, and studied with André Navarra in Paris, Nikolaus Harnoncourt in Vienna and Jordi Savall in Bâle. He has performed with l’Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Concentus Musicus de Vienne, and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment among many others. Mr. Coin teaches Baroque violin and Viola de Gamba at the National Conservatory of Music in Paris and at the Schola Cantorum in Bâle. He teaches annually at the International Academies of Granada and Innsbruck and gives master classes throughout France.

Mr. Höbarth plays a Joseph Guarnerius violin made in Cremona in 1705. Ms. Bischof plays a violin made in France in the 18th century, maker unknown. Ms. Mitterer plays a Carolus le Pot viola made in Lille in 1725. Mr. Coin plays an Alessandro Gagliano cello made in Naples.